Figure 2From: What type of rural? Assessing the variations in life expectancy at birth at small area-level for a small population province using classes of locally defined settlement types Mean quintile score of material deprivation (left) and social isolation (right) with 95% confidence intervals among settlemen types. 1. Metro, 2. Suburbs, 3. Big satellite town, 4. Mid-size town, 5. Small town, 6. Village & settlement cluster, 7. Sparse settlement. Data source: Census of Canada (2006), Nova Scotia Community Counts.Back to article page